Science, done by human beings, has ethical and moral dimensions. A play by VINCE LiCATA, a biologist at Louisiana State University, explores this, with some dance and a little gun-play. The staged reading of "Mexican Hat Dance" will be directed by BARBARA BOSCH, with actors from the Hunter College Department of Theater. K.C. COLE, one of the founders of our program, and a great writer, will talk about the uneasy dance of science and government - past, present (and future?). And anthropologist and singer-songwriter RICHARD MILNER will perform songs about Darwinian morality, angst, and politics from his acclaimed musical about the great evolutionist.
Cover $10

"Beckham's warmly melodic writing is well served by his approach, one
situated between the slow-burn soul of Milt Jackson and the pianism of
Gary Burton."
-Jazztimes Magazine

"When he takes the stage he invariably amplifies the album¹s energy.
I¹ve seen him stress his instrument¹s percussive side, and in doing so,
stretch a solo into a trance-like soliloquy."
-The Village Voice Cover $10
www.tombeckham.net

Monday
Jun 06

6:00PMNEW SHULEsther Perel, host

The Downtown Salon is a public feast for hungry minds. The New Shul invites you to join moderator Esther Perel for a season of provocative guest presentations, roundtable discussions and open debates. We gather around small tables for conversation, wine and community building. Swap thoughts and insights with old and new friends on issues in (or behind) the headlines.
Over-Scheduled Lives...Under-Fed Relationships.
With Dr. Peter Fraenkel
Longer work hours, shorter vacations, information technologies that
link us to the workplace no matter where we go, and a belief that it's a sin to
miss any opportunity to develop our own or our children's potential, has
left us with little time for love. We'll talk about how to create and preserve
time so that we can slow down and find one another again.
Dr. Peter Fraenkel is an internationally-known expert on couples
and time, an Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology at the
City University of New York.
Esther Perel is a Manhattan based psychologist and social commentator whose cross-cultural pulse and playful intellect break with convention.
The New Shul is a new, progressive Jewish congregation located in downtown New York City. For more information, please call 212-284-6773 or visit www.newshul.org .
Admission $10
$5 for New Shul Members>
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Sponsored by The Educational Alliance’s Jewish Below 14th Street Project funded by UJA-Federation of New York.
Cover $10
(includes one house drink)

8:30PMAMRAM TRIO:

Amram Trio: World Music and Classics of Jazz - "From Kahrtoum to Cornelia
Street"

This series explores in his highly personable, generous and informal style the astonishing
variety of David Amram's interests and accomplishments--renowned composer of
symphonic classical music, jazz compositions, improvisation, spoken word, scat, he sits at
the piano, schmoozes about music, about the greats, the beats, the obscure, the
legendary; plays the French horn, pulls out all kinds of instruments (flutes, drums, horns)
gathered from his many circumnavigations of the globe, pulls in guests drawn from just
about every artistic walk of life.
Cover $10
www.davidamram.com

Tuesday
Jun 07

6:00PMSHAKESPEARE SLAM HOST JONATHAN ESCOBIOhost Jonathan EscobioMichele Cameron; TBA
what we trust will be the start of an ongoing series of evenings wherein we take a world class author, an academic expert, and scores of writers actors and readers who can't get enough of their favorite author, mix well and have fun. some candidates for future "slams": Rimbaud, Rilke, Goethe, Yeats, Dickinson, Parker. welcome to The Cornelia Street Cafe University in a Basement.
Cover $6
(includes one house drink)

The Flail is a unique entity in today's world of jazz, even music as a
whole. They offer a repertoire of original compositions and
arrangements full of intensity and imagination. From the first moment one
experiences The Flail, it is clear that this group is a band in every sense of
the word. The kind of energy that such unity creates cannot be faked,
nor can the power of it be denied. Upon hearing them, jazz legend Kenny
Barron said,"I would pay good money to see these guys play at a jazz
club."

The Flail have performed at some of the premier events and venues in
the world including Carnegie Hall, the Vienne Jazz Festival, the
Marseille Jazz Festival, and Sweet Rhythm.
Cover $8
www.theflail.com

Back in the 30’s and 40’s bluesy,
comedic, swing musicians like Louie Jordan and Cab Calloway
made some great music that still sounds fresh today. Yiddish
was a pretty active street language in New York City at that
time, and it was woven into the music. You had Slim Gaillard
singing "Matzo Balls", Mildred Bailey recording "A Bee Gezindt",
and Calloway’s hysterical yiddish/gibberish cantillation intro to
"Ot Azoy" (That's the Way).

Paul Shapiro celebrates this interplay of 40’s hipster
swing with some Yiddish thrown in at the Cornelia Street Café.
Calling it the Ribs and Brisket Revue*, the
saxophonist/composer features Babi Floyd, (of Keith
Richard's Expensive Winos et al) and
Cilla Owens (one of New York’s best kept
secrets). They will be backed by musicians from
Paul’s CD ”Midnight Minyan”, on Tzadik Records, which was
released lastyear. *Paul was visited in a dream state by the ghost of Fats Waller
who convinced him that R&B originally stood for Ribs & Brisket

NYC pianist, vocalist, and 2004 Unisong International
Songwriting Contest Finalist Anna Dagmar captivates
fullhouse audiences with her songs of love, longing, and compassion. Her melodies
and lyrics are accessible to pop listeners, while her
sweeping piano improvisations intrigue jazz fans.
While Dagmar is often placed among the ranks of Joni
Mitchell, Fiona Apple, Sarah McLachlan, and Jonatha
Brooke, Collected Sounds reviewer Amy Lotsberg claims,
"I can't even come up with a strong comparison to
Dagmar. She's an original." Dagmar's full-band debut,
One More Time in the Air (2001), and new release Solo
Songs (2004), can be found at www.AnnaDagmar.com.

This unique series features both emerging and established vocalists in styles ranging from
straight ahead, modern to avant-garde and free jazz. Each vocalist will present personal
material that showcases their abilities as interpreters, improvisers, composers and
arrangers. The Cornelia St. Cafe provides an intimate setting to hear these exceptional
artists at a reasonable price!

Come and hear the HOTTEST jazz flutist
playing in NY.
Jeremy Steig has played with Bill Evans, Art
Blakey, Jimi Hendrix,
Johnny Winter and many others. He brings
with him three legendary musician.
Cover $12
www.jeremysteig.info
,
www.nyjazzreport.com

Saturday
Jun 11

6:00PMITALIAN-AMERICAN WRITERS ASSOCIATIONGil Fagiani, host

Italian American Writers Association, featured readers :
GREG MOGLIA is Adjunct Professor of Philosophy of Education at New York University. His poetry has appeared in Patterson Literary Review, Birmingham Literary Review, Black Buzzard Review and in two anthologies: Earth Shattering Poems and Roots and Flowers edited by Liz Rosenberg (Henry Holt and Co.) and is three times a winner of an Allan Ginsberg Poetry Award sponsored by the Poetry Center at Passaic County Community College.

FRED GARDAPHE directs the Italian/American Studies Program at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He recently finished a book entitled Leaving Little Italy: Essays in Italian American Studies, and is currently at work on a memoir and a study of the gangster figure in American culture, From Wiseguys to Wise Men, which will be published next year by Rutledge.
Other books include Italian Signs, American Streets: The Evolution of Italian American Narrative, Dagoes Read: Tradition and the Italian/American Writer, Moustache Pete is Dead!. He is one of the founders of Bordighera Press and is co-founder and co-editor of VIA: Voices in Italian Americana. He has edited New Chicago Stories, Italian American Ways, and From the Margin: Writings in Italian Americana.

Elliott Sharp is known for the wide range of his work,
always true to
his own sonic vision and performing throughout the world: from
blues
with his band Terraplane and the legendary Hubert Sumlin,
extreme
rock with Carbon, chamber works with the Arditti Quartet,
orchestral
scores with the Ensmeble Modern, and improvisation with the
likes of
Jack DeJohnette, Bill Laswell, Arthur Blythe, Christian Marclay,
and
DJ Soulslinger. Sharp recently released a CD of solo acoustic
guitar, "The Velocity Of Hue" to great critical acclaim and has just
recorded a CD of Thelonious Monk compositions also on
acoustic
guitar.

Elliott Sharp reviews:
"If much of his previous work has found beauty in extremes of
intensity, he reverses course here, creating a cumulative
intensity
from extremes of beauty."
Steve Smith - TIME OUT NYC

While Sharp's knowledge of global musics must inform his
playing, the
overall effect is of an intrinsically American, intrinsically blues,
and specifically guitar derived, music. The playing is elegiac,
lyrical and passionate, and uses several extended techniques of
finger-tapping, harmonics and fretboard noise as well as a
subtle
sinuous acoustic feedback to extend notes at will. Few other
players
have managed to liberate the language of steel blues so
completely
Most of all, though, the music has an extraordinary saturated
living
colour, as the title track (and its title) Velocity Of Hue so
succinctly suggest."
Nick Southgate - THE WIRE

SEX SCENES": interlocking stories about people in Hollywood trying
to make a sexually explicit movie. Here are just few of the people you'll
meet: Katie, the gay-porn loving filmmaker daughter of a once-famous
cinematographer who's now turned pimp to the stars; Evan, the alpha
male who loves to be degraded by sexy women; Chessie, the porn
mogul who's too tired at the end of the day to think about sex herself ...
Kelly, the call girl who's caught in a super star sex scandal, then hired
to teach a class in prostitution theory at Berkeley....
the actors: Tim Cusack, Karen Grenke, Phyllis Johnson, Sarah Kozinn, Catherine Kung, Tami Mansfield, Margaret Nichols, Mason Pettit & Jake Thomas.
Cover $6
(includes one house drink)

"Major Over Minor, a string trio with Rob Thomas on violin and Lindsey
Horner on bass, plays music based on Béla Bartók's works for two violins.
Horner set the tempos and laid rhythmic foundations for the violin solos, in
which Bartók's acrid melodic language became a springboard for brilliant
jazz musings."
- David Adler, All About Jazz

The string trio Major Over Minor is dedicated to exploring the works of
Hungarian composer and ethnomusicologist Bela Bartok through jazz
improvisation. The trio was formed in 2004 by three of New York’s leading
improvising string players: violinist Rob Thomas, violist/violinist Tanya
Kalmanovitch, and bassist Lindsey Horner.

Bela Bartok (1881-1945) was deeply involved with the folk music of Eastern
Europe. One of the founders or 20th century ethnomusicology, Bartok
collected field recordings of traditional Rumanian, Slovakian, Serbian,
Croatian, Bulgarian, Turkish and North African music as well as the folk
music of his native Hungary. The short compositions that form the bulk of
Major Over Minor’s repertoire – in particular, the progressive compositions
Bartok wrote for piano and violin students – display these various ethnic
influences.

Thomas, Kalmanovitch and Horner use Bartok’s miniatures as departure points
for jazz improvisation. The group’s name comes from a musicological term
that describes Bartok’s characteristic polytonal harmonic language, but
“major over minor” also points to the music’s emotional chiaroscuro of
melancholy and celebration. The result is an intimate, expressive chamber
music that reaches across the boundaries of folk, classical, jazz and free
improvisation.
Cover $10
www.tanyakalmanovitch.com